hostile - Story 66168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate decorations and the general air of merriment at the reception felt oppressive to Olivia. The sight of James, her ex, hand in hand with his new partner, was the final straw. She felt a burning sensation in her chest.

She retreated to the open bar, requesting a double whiskey, something she rarely did. She stared at the amber liquid, swirling it around in her glass, and noticed her hand was shaking. She took a large gulp, the burning sensation mirroring the fire in her heart.

Emotion: hostile

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -1.67 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.56

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion hostile. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 hostile stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the hostile emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the hostile vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.592
`S`	0.387
`骂`	0.324
`est`	0.301
`aggravated`	0.295

Suppressed:

`a`	-0.457
`de`	-0.375
`H`	-0.289
`🤩`	-0.280
`la`	-0.273